Comments on: Red Sox not actively negotiating with Stephen Drewhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/
Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball.Tue, 03 Mar 2015 22:40:45 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: sawxalicioushttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-662013
Fri, 28 Feb 2014 07:40:26 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-662013I have zero sympathy for Drew. He is a slightly above average player defensively and average offensively. 14 million dollars for one year was more than generous for his talent level and he blew it. I’m sure a team would sign him if he drastically reduced his salary demands. At this point, he should be considered lucky to receive 14 million total fir a two year contract. Reality is a beotch.
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Fri, 28 Feb 2014 05:33:03 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661981Just say no to Drew as he is not even an average player.Just another greedy player represented the most greedy agent Boros.
]]>By: paperlionshttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-661773
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:06:06 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661773Hey, if you are going to leave out a comma….that was a pretty good one to omit.
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 18:04:29 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661771Crap! I knew as soon as I posted I was missing proper punctuation.

Stupid lack of edit function…mutter, mutter, grumble, grumble…

]]>By: proudlycanadianhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-661746
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 17:19:27 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661746He had a knot in a muscle in his back. That made it difficult to throw his knuckle ball at 2 speeds. The back got betterimproved in the second half.
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 16:46:25 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661721I believe you, he did seem to be off a bit.
]]>By: proudlycanadianhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-661662
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:34:13 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661662Dickey was pitching with a bad back most of the season. Check it out on google.
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 15:18:49 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661651Apparently trades did in the Blue Jays as well. How did the RA Dickey trade fare? Or was he hurt too?
]]>By: 18thstreethttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-661617
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:36:16 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661617Most of the time, I use Xander for exactly this reason.
]]>By: paperlionshttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-661607
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 14:12:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661607Haha….now I can’t help but picture Good Bogaerts wearing a white robe with a halo and Bad Bogaerts dressed in red with a trident.
]]>By: American of African Descenthttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-661598
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:57:47 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661598How can you expect him to feed his family on $14 million?
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:55:58 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661597Bad Bogarts can also do everything Drew can. However, bad Bogarts has a goatee and is subject to fits of maniacal laughter at various (although not inappropriate) times.
]]>By: proudlycanadianhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-661594
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:29:11 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661594Actually, Toronto was done in by injuries last season. The 2 key free agents they signed were Izturis who did not play well and Melky who was done in by a tumor in his back. They also signed Mark DeRosa to be the 25th man on the roster. Due to all the injuries, DeRosa had to play a lot more than expected.
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:53:07 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661587Yeah, overpaying free agents worked so well for Toronto last year. Good to see Scott endorsing that strategy for them again in 2014. :)
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:49:00 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661584Unfortunately, the Red Sox will probably not get a sandwich pick in the draft out of this unless some team signs him before the amateur draft. That seems unlikely unless some short stop has a horrible injury during the next several weeks. All considered, the Red Sox should consider themselves lucky that Drew never signed the Qualifying Offer. I never understood it in the first place. I’m sure Boras didn’t either. The Red Sox need to find out what they have in Middlebrooks. Righthanded power hitters are not easy to find and their window on him is a year or two before they have another numbers game when Garin Cecchini is ready to challenge for that position. It’s doubtful that the WAR for a left side of Bogearts and Middlebrooks is materially less than one of Drew and Bogearts or enough to justify not giving Middlebrooks a fair look. We see too many Red Sox prospects who wind up doing well in Oakland because the Red Sox are in too much of a hurry to replace them with stabilized players like Drew.
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:43:47 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661582I will still think of him as “Humphrey”.
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Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:42:02 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661581That is true. Borass made negative comments about the Jays ownership, on a Toronto radio station because the Jays are unwilling to sign Drew and Morales. Both radio commentators and Blue Jay broadcaster Greg Zaun laughed at his comments. They do not see how either Drew or Morales could help the Jays. Zaun in particular said that Drew, Morales, Ublado Jiminez and Ervin Santana wanted much more money than they were worth. As an aside, Zaun also said that some baseball people think that Ervin Santana is about 1 year away from needing Tommy John surgery.
]]>By: paperlionshttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-661579
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:33:05 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661579What can Bad Bogaerts do?
]]>By: karlkolchakhttp://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/02/26/red-sox-not-actively-negotiating-with-stephen-drew/comment-page-1/#comment-661577
Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:29:59 +0000http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=512446#comment-661577Yup, he can whine about the compensation system all he wants, but he knew what the rules were going in. Somehow, he got it into his head that he was a star player rather than a nice addition to have, and now one on the wrong side of 30 at that.

The $14.1 million qualifying offer was higher than the AAV of any contract he’d likely get even without the compensation. Now he’s trying to blame the system for his own dumb decision not to accept that offer.